MetagameLGPE VGC

Let's GO VGC was created by the famous player Francesco Pardini (AlexisVGC) and the team of the Italian website Altopiano Blu. The goal of this format is to create a format as close to actual VGC rules as possible in Let's Go.

Rules and Info:
- Teams are composed of six Pokémon, but only four are taken into battle.
- Battles are played at Level 50 in Normal mode (no Candies, Friendship auto-set to 70).
- Mega Evolutions can be chosen between (for Pokémon that have more than one like Charizard).
- Restricted Legendaries, Mythicals and Special Pokémon are banned.

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I love the idea! One thing I want to say though is that a VGC format really shouldn't care about Smogon legality, such as one hit or Evasion moves. Also moves that lower accuracy such as Smokescreen are actually allowed in Smogon formats. If we want to be as accurate as possible these strategies should definitely be permitted. Other than that, great work setting this up!

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I hate to double post but the thread creator was only active on Smogon for two days and has been inactive for a week. I really want to see this meta go somewhere, so I've gone ahead and removed the banned moves from the OP. I'm also going to add the format to my side server in the next few days for ease of play.
Also, I really feel like the preliminary VR is very off; for example, Farfetch'd only really has a niche in Candy metas where it lives long enough to boost up and use Sky Attack, and that's singles too. I'll get round to improving such resources once the meta has been tested more.
Feel free to post your thoughts on the meta of course, and drop me an @ in the Lets Go Discord or chat room if you want to play!

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We're considering them as Special Pokèmon, similarly to Ash Greninja. Also Pokès with restricted distribution are generally not included in VGC, which the two starters classify as due to being untradeable and exclusive to each game.

We're considering them as Special Pokèmon, similarly to Ash Greninja. Also Pokès with restricted distribution are generally not included in VGC, which the two starters classify as due to being untradeable and exclusive to each game.